Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, September 20, 1912, FINAL 2, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text2 Gin m RAISE IS NEEDED-GANDLER Municipality Is in Bad Financial Way—Revision of Budget Is Begun. Aiderman John S. Candler, chairman of the council finance committee, was at work today with Comptroller Gold smith preparing a tentative revision of the municipal budget. Aiderman Candler said the city was strained financially. All the depart ments are crying for more money. He said the only means he saw for the city to get its finances adjusted was to raise the tax rate from 1.25 per cent to 1.50 per cent. Indications are that all the "nest eggs" provided in the budget in Janu ary will be taken out when the new budget is presented to council in Octo ber. The October budget is merely a readjustment of the January budget. Funds are running so short that many of the appropriations made just to start Improvements will be recalled. Thousands of dollars was thus dis tributed. Much of the money Is lying idle without any chance of it being spent this year. It is very uncertain which will be recalled. Every council man will strenuously oppose the recall 'f any funds from his pet schemes. How $3,000,000 Was Spent. F. A. Quillian, chairman of the bond commission, today completed a state ment of the expenditures of the $3,- 000,000 bond issue money. The items include the premiums from the sale of bonds. Os the $914,943.54 water bond money <758,335.21 has been expended. Os the $101,411.36 of hospital bond Honey $97,437.97 has been expended. Os the $50,705.68 crematory bond money $12,987.50 has been expended. Os the $610,202.36 of school bond money $581,750.53 has been spent. Os the $1,359,498.06 of sewer bond money $ , 64,901.13 has been spent. THROWING JAVELIN IS NOW “COMING IN’’ AS WOMAN’S SPORT LONDON, Sept. 20. -Javelin throw ing is "corning in" as a sport sor 1 women. Miss Dora Swinburne Roberts, a ; young Oxfoid girl, Is England’s pioncet lady javelin thrower, and she can throw; | the javelin, which is eight feet long, steel-tipped, ami weighs over a pound and a half, a distant • of 78 feet 6 inches. Tlie javelin is held at about the point of balance, ami thr thrower sprints for about twenty yards up to what may bo called the “take off" mark, on the grass, where the javelin leaves the hand. At the mark a sudden stop is made, and the thrower- giving it a twist as it leaves the hand- hurls the javelin with left leg thrust forward and the rest of the body bent backward, to get the greater impetus. It is against the rules to fall over the line, as the novice invariably does, before the javelin touches the ground at the other end. "Javelin throwing is one of the best and most graceful exercises that could be devised," said F. A. M. Webster, the English champion javelin thrower, who is coaching Miss Roberts "It is especially useful to women, as it develops the muscles of the neck and back as no other sport does. One must also be a good sprinter, jumper and w eight throw er before one can succeed as a javelin thrower. Also ft is en tirely inexpensive, and can be practiced in nearly any place. LAWYER GIBSON WINS AND LOSES IN BATTLE OVER SZABO ESTATE NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Burton W. Gibson, the attorney accused of mur dering Countess Rosa Menschik Szabo, lost and won a point today in his ef forts to retain the post of executor of the dead woman's estate. Surrogate Fowler refused to receive a secret and confidential statement stating what disposition Gibson had made of the estate, but later granted Charles Goldzier. counsel for Gibson, until Tuesday to file a brief challeng ing the right of the consulate of Aus tria-Hungary to have Gibson removed as executor of the estate. The ground upon which counsel for Gibson challenges the consulate is that ft is not interested in the estate and has no right, under the treaty between the X’nlted States ami Austria-Hungary to take the action that is set up. This international question was raised at the outset of the light to have Gibson removed from the care of money left by the countess. "I do this," said Surrogate Fowler in granting the attorney time to question the jurisdiction of the court to hear the foteign complaint, "because I am moved by sympathy for the unfortunate situa tion of Mr. Gibson. Ender our present system of jurisprudence a man is pre sumed to be innocent until he is con victed, and then the law takes its course. I am not disposed to place any unnecessary obstacles in the path of this unfortunati man and I will there fore give him time to present the law on the subject of the jurisdiction of this court." L. & N. EXPRESS CAR LOOTED OF $70,000; OFFICERS ON TRAIL new ORLEANS, sept. 2<>. The au thmities were notified todav that an 'Xpr. S ear of the I, and N. railload " ! U robbed of $70,000 between I’ensH k a. Fla., and Flom iton, Ala., Wi dnes ■ d.o mot ning, ’ ■ '"f* here today to inve-ti -1!1 merwy was taken from a package containing $75,000. I Singer Thinks Atlanta Will Put Wagner on Map Again LAUDS CITY'S MUSICAL TASTE Mrs. Carthew-Yorstoun To Be Heard in Sunday Recital at Auditorium-Armory. Grand opera may some day owe much to Atlanta if the pet theory of Mrs. Carthew-Yorstoun, formerly Miss Nel lie Knight, of Atlanta, and Georgia’s single contribution to the list of world prima donnas, proves to be correct. Mrs. Yorstoun believes it is in Atlanta’s power to bring America’s musical taste back to him who made modern opera— Wagner. In an engaging interview' on things both musical and personal, Mrs. Yor stoun, who will sing two Wagnerian arias and a Gounod selection at the Auditorium on Sunday, lent credulity to I her theory by her enthusiasm for the | greatest of music dramas and Atlan ta’s keen response to the intellectual in music. “Why, they tell me," she said, glow ing with her subject, "that the per formance of Tannhauser was the flow- I er of the Metropolitan’s week in At- I lanta las»t spring, a marvelous thing in l the face of a week of the most brilliant > of the Italian operas with the array I egg 0 I s J / BO /Am JI I fit WF \ \ vSlr \\" \\ J® \\ Mrs. Carthew-Yorstoun. formerly Aliss Nellie Knight. Geor gia's only representative on th? operatic stage. She will be heard in concert at the Auditorium Sunday. of Italian singers that came to Atlan ta.” Wagner Ruthlessly Slaughtered. It is her firm conviction that Wag ner, almost done to death for America by the screeching of German tenors and the hammering and. yammering of or chestras in the years of his first vogue on this side of the Atlantic, will again come Into ills own. And in Atlanta’s appreciation for this gigantic musical architect, who sought in undreamed realms for strangely < beautiful themes to depict the story of the human soul, she finds more than a hopeful sign. It is prophetic of the fact tlie dreamer of Bayreuth will again overshadow all composers for Ameri cans. Atlanta, she believes, will again put Wagner on tlie American musical map. Mrs. Yorstoun, who has just experi enced four years enforced absence from the operatic stage because of ill health, was in high humor at the thought that she again is able to resume her sing ing. To Be Heard in Concert. Atlanta is to have the first opportu nity on Sunday of hearing her after many years. She sang here before fin ishing her musical education in Europe. Tlie Romeo and Juliet aria of Gounod, Elizabeth Enterance aria from Tann hauser and Isolde's Death Song from Tristan and Isolde will be her offerings at the Auditorium. Opera is her chosen field. After it. she says, the concert stage is cold. Ora torio she finds brilliant and beautiful, but too glaclle. It is tn the warmth of the trappings and colorings of opera that the artist loses herself and finds the role most suited to her genius. "I would always sing opera,” she said. “The concert stage Is too chill. In op era I lose myself, my identity; I be- l come the character I portray. The whole story of the part, the anguish and the joy, becomes mine, "That is why I would always sing Wagner. There is something in tilt power of his music, the depth of his tragedies and the heights of his ec,ta eles that carries you away with him into ills tonal imaginings ” As she spoke. Mrs. Yorstoun's face lighted and she might have stepped from tlie cozy little sitting room of Mrs. Thaddeus Horton's home into some dim I Wagnerian wood, where a goddess awaited for the twilight of her race. Appeared in Covent Garden. Mr, Yorstoun Is perhaps best re j membered in musical Atlanta ns Miss Nellie Knight, when she appeared here a« a soloist and protegee of Madame Angier. She has always been well known socially Leaving Atlanta f<-r wider musical fields, she went to N v w Yelk and later | ’THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1912. - ' - f . '■ A ' J N* r ™ ..« 4 W x i • m i " ■■ ~u ! / UP // W *o / JnRHP SO w ’ to London. Berlin and Paris. Aside from engagements in Covent Garden, her operatic career was staged in Ger many. In Strassburg, Metz and Co logne she sang in 25 roles, some of them the most difficult of Wagner's. Her singing in Aida is still remembered. Among her Wagnerian roles which •will be heard at tlie Auditorium as the feature of the fall municipal concerts Mrs. Yorstoun numbers Tannhauser, the Rheingold, Gotteidammerung, Loh engrin and Die Valkeries. With her husband, Major Carthew- Yorstouh. retired from tlie British army service, she is stopping with Mrs. Thad deus Horton, in Eighth street. Tlie Carthew-Yorstouns expect to be in At lanta through the winter. LOW SALARY BLAMED FOR BANK CLERK’S THEFT PHILADELPHIA. PA„ Sept. 20.—"1 feel safe in saying that he is here as tlie result of a mistaken policy on the part of many of our banks in not pay ing adequate salaries to th ir employ ees,” declared counsel for C. L. Mc- Cracken, who was charged with embez zlement. in making a pica for mercy. McCracken was a former employee in a bank In a Pennsylvania town, and had pleaded guilty to embezzling $6.- 500. Although married, with a family of four small children, McCracken, the counsel said, was employed at a salary of sl2 a week. OUR STORE will be closed to morrow until six P. M. ac count HOUDA Y TI7ILL BE OPEN from six until ten P. M. Eiseman Bros. U nc -) 11-13-15-17 Whitehall St. ——- Up and Down Peachtree Absurd Rules at Terminal Station. A striking illustration of the absurd lengths to which a blind adherence to technical rules may be carried was fur nished at tlie Terminal station yester day to the indignation of a small crowd of onlookers. A youth, who had barely missed death in a motorcycle accident and was badly crippled, was being wheeled in a chair by a friend, accompanied by his aged aunt, who was taking him back to her home in Alabama. At the gate leading to the train section the three were stopped. The man aiding his injured friend had no ticket, and there was no time to get a permit to pass through. It would be necessary for some one to help the cripple aboard the train. The white-haired aunt pleaded with the Terminal agent that the young man be allowed to go through to help her nephew. The man added his plea. The invalid added his. They were all vain. "Another party waiting behind you,’’ said the ticket man, not deigning to answer the appeals. The aged aunt was ready to weep with indignation, but the railroad man remained unmoved. A negro was final ly summoned and he wheeled the chair on down to the train while the friend who had been barred wasted the best part of a select vocabulary on a deaf railload and its deafer servants. GEORGIAN WANT ADS FILL ALL WANTS. BOTH PHONES bOOO. DRIVER OF DEATH miMED Attorney Asks Protection for State Witnesses in Rosen thal Murder Case. NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—As a result of threats made against witnesses for the stat® In the Rosenthal case the dis trict attorney’s office will ask Judge GotT for a court order to enforce pro tection of persons whose testimony is deemed necessary for the conviction of Lieutenant Charles Becker. Louis Shapiro, driver of the gray au tomobile in which the Rosenthal assas sins escaped after the killing, has been threatened with death. Small Results From Waldo Quiz NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Police Com missioner Waldo was recalled for the second time by the aldermahlc graft in vestigating committee today and proved a fiery witness. Emory R. Buckner, at torney for the committee, attempted to learn from Waldo details of the ad ministrative policy of the police de partment and how far this is dictated by Mayor Gaynor. In response to the first questions put to him, the commissioner said that he had no knowledge of apy letters sent him accusing his secretary. Winfield R. Sheehan. < The commissioner was then ques tioned as to his appointment of certain policemen after they had been refused by his predecessors. The commissioner admitted that he had appointed to the department 'men who afterward proved to be crooks, but declared that his hands were tied and Call An Auto PHONE BELHSLE Ivy 5190 Atlanta 1598 DAY OR NIGHT. Five and seven-passenger touring cars, also olosed cars. Our drivers are careful and reliable. REASONABLE CHARGES. All calls answered promptly, and we never disappoint you. . BelMsle Auto Rent Service 4 LUCKIE STREET, OPPOSITE PIEDMONT HOTEL. Is II i i i THE ATLANTA TONIGHT 8:15 Saturday Matinee and Night FLORENCE WEBBER In Victor Herbert’s Opera. Night 25c to $1.50; Mat. 25c to SI.OO. “NAUGHTY MARIETTA’’ THE ATLANTA Seats Now on Sale AL G. FIELD MINSTRELS Entire Engagement of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Mat-' inee Wednesday Nights 25c to $1; Matinee 25c to 75c. GET IN LINE. Buy it now— AL G. FIELD’S great book. "WATCH YOURSELF GO BY," at Lester’s, It’s funny. GRAND SUPtRBKZITH vTuorvUu L Mil"'" Daily 2:30; Night 8:10 OPENING OF SEASONJ NEXT WILLARD SIMMS & CO., JOSIE HEATHER! WEEK CAESAR RIVOLI, Doo- More Sinned J*Y & Sa . l ? 8, For d & Against than Maxwell, Martinetti &| j Sylvester, Klutlngs Em Usuai and tertalners, Pathe Plc-I Six Other I Features I YRh : this ■— I WEEK Mats. Tues., Thurs, and Saturday. FIRST TIMS HfRE A f L YPZC PKICtS SEV E N DAYS THE GREATEST of ALL COMEDIES Smiles—Laughter—Screams—No Tears A $1.50 Show at Popular Prices. I VO* I next ■— ■ ■wi WEEK Matinees Tues., Thurs. and Sat. THE ROMANTIC TRIUMPH, THE GOOSE GIRL Original Cast and Production. SALE NOW OPEN, ALWAYS ATLANTA'S BUSIEST THEATER FORSYTH DA,LY MATINEES 2:30 rynoi i n NIGHT 7:45 and 9:15 POPULAR VRUttVILIt.-KfITN RIND Minnie Vlctorson & Co.. Heidelberg Four. Wixson & Connelly, Musical Vynos, Aldro &. Mitchell—Motion Pictures. DON’T MISB A GOOD SHOW GIRL BATHERS IN MOBILE BAY GET COAT OF CREOSOTE MOBILE, ALA., Sept. 20. Many young women of Mobile society, as well as other persons, of both sexes and in varying walks of life, were uninten tional bla’ckface comedians last night. The trouble happened in the waters of Mobile bay when numerous bathing parties went in for an evening dip. A big lighter, laden with creosote and beached during the recent storm, had capsized and emptied its black contents into the water. At Monroe park and elsewhere, how ever, there was not light enough to see the floating scum, and it was not until the first bathers began emerging that they found themselves coated with a tarry substance that would not wash off. that he was appoint men cer tified by the civil service commission. Specific cases were given by Attorney Buckner of bad appointments, and the commissioner each time fell back upon his defense that He was obliged to ac cept the men given to him by the civil service commissioners. At no time could Mr. Buckner lead Mr. Waldo to admit that he should have investigated the records of the men appointed. PROM TOP TO TOE, WE CAN EQUIP -T you with as fine a line of new and np-to-date Furnishings as your most fas tidious taste could desire. Come in and let us show you the smart, authentic styles and shades in soft and stiff HATS Beautiful plain and pleated bosom “GOTHAM” SHIRTS Newest shapes in the ever-popular “LION” COLLARS Mixed and All-Wool Winter UNDERWEAR NECKWEAR HOSIERY HANAN SHOES for Men and Women CARLTON Shoe and Clothing Co. 36 Whitehall St. I I To D. W. BOWIE and the OCTOPUS: Shall R. C. TURNER, our brilliant young ‘‘pro- 1 gressive” be citv electrician or the* OCTOPUS I (GEORGIA RAILWAY & ELECTRIC COMPANY)i| That $200,000 annual reduction in electricity rates E to the people of Atlanta beginning January, 1913, in-■ stigated you, others and the OCTOPUS, did it not? Did you know that the public is confident that I the OCTOPUS, with its thousands of tentacles over! Fulton county, had you publish that two-cohimn ad in I the Atlanta papers? The OCTOPUS will pay the I bills, too; now won’t it”? As to your paragraph two—“notoriety” in the! press, for Turner put the public wise, did it not ? You, 1 too. seem to be a pastmaster in the art of press “no- 1 toriety;” now aren’t you? As to your paragraph three—you can not substan- 1 tiate a single charge as to Turner’s violation of duty. I legally, morally or otherwise; can you? As to Turner not carrying out his contract with I you, the OCTOPUS does not know that I hold youi I personal receipt and signed by you showing that Tur- I ner’s contract with you has been carried out; does I OCTOPUS? Whv do von embarrass yourself and I OCTOPUS? As to your “k-a-r-d,” Turner can not afford t< spend his hard earned money to answer ch;nt I which specify nothing and say nothing. OCTOPUS' I I thought you with all of your journalistic ability and I legal powers around you could do better than y° u I have. But you have done your best. You and the I OCTOPUS know that, don’t you? , I. Pooh, pooh! Whiff! M’hiffle! for the I and you (the man Friday of the OCTOPUS). The I public knows the truth. 1 answer you with the authority of “Topsy Tur ner, the only city electrician Atlanta has ever P os; T' f 'il ed—the old newspaper route carrier who once worke ■ under me when we were boys together struggling a livelihood. He still retains a character unsullied air| untarnished and with a splendid abilitv, despite tlH , | efforts of you and the OCTOPUS to cast aspersions! upon the veritable “young man of the hour." I “Topsy," upon my solicitation, allowed me to l'> I some “notoriety.” You had some one else to writ ■ your “notoriety” and you signed it. CARL HUTCHESON'. September 20, 1912. (Advertisement.) WITH BUT HALF OF HIS BRAIN MAN GETS ALONG FAIRLY WELL LONDON, Sept. 20.—A case of who gets along very eomfortablv m , an only half his brain lias just been hr " ’ h to the notice of the surgeons hero ° UBht . eU:?,-7;x the head. The surgeons immeifiatelv , " cided to remove the injured part' ’k, half-of the brain. In five weeks th. t “ was about again, as usual . man evident that he had forgotten how to rl?? write and cipher. A teacher was nr ’ cured for him. and in rive month, h°.‘ could read, write and calculate as wen as The military authorities, however o slder that a man with only half a brain is exempt from service In the army <• sequently they have allowed him a n?? sion, on which he now lives with h u parents. nis Besides the pension, a scientific soo ty allows him $250 a year on condlti™ that from time to time he lets i ts In e“ bers make experiments with him. Simplify home, apartment, room seek . 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